McLuhan was right. Media environments now shape thought, education, and public behaviour more powerfully than content itself.A man reads a newspaper while sitting on a park bench in downtown Vancouver, in a file photo. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press4/26/2026|Updated: 4/26/2026CommentaryLong before social media and smartphones,...

CommentaryPeter MacKinnon is a lawyer, former law professor, a former Dean of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, and a senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation among other accomplishments. He served as president of the University of Saskatchewan, and interim president at both Athabasca...